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Sunday, March 23, 2014
2:00pm
After the deaths in the early 1950s of botanist T.J. Fitzpatrick and his wife, a treasure trove of rare books was found in their modest home in Lincol...
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Sunday, April 6, 2014
2:00pm
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On a cold day in December 1890, near a creek called Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, the U.S. Army’s 7th Cavalry opened fir...
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Sunday, April 27, 2014
2:00pm
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The 1876 raid by the James-Younger gang on Northfield, Minnesota, may be the most famous bank robbery in history.
Recognizing what was happening, c...
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Sunday, December 8, 2013
2:00pm
By 1940, Kansas City authorities had finally deposed “Boss Tom” Pendergast. In the spring of that year, teams of laborers from the Works Progress Admi...
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Sunday, January 19, 2014
2:00pm
Trumpeter Miles Davis once said: "You can tell the history of jazz in four words: Louis Armstrong. Charlie Parker."
Saxophone virtuoso Charlie "Bir...
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Sunday, August 26, 2012
2:00pm
Civil War battlefields stubbornly conceal their secrets and their archaeology remains a buried, largely untapped source of historical information....
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Sunday, September 16, 2012
2:00pm
In 1911 art-minded Missourians hired the nation’s leading artists to decorate the new Missouri statehouse, and the works they created were considered...
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Sunday, June 24, 2012
2:00pm
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Author Brandon G. Kinney explores the complex series of events that led to the brief but bloody Mormon War of 1838,...
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Sunday, October 14, 2012
2:00pm
Jim Chappell has accumulated a treasure trove of sports memorabilia that covers the walls of his restaurant. Dozens of sports persona...
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Sunday, May 18, 2014
2:00pm
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A now forgotten advertising slogan once proclaimed that Kansas City — proud of its “cowtown” heritage — was “where the steak is born.”...